Irondequoit Post: The late Dr. Karyl Mammano is tapped as Irondequoit Chamber's Citizen of the Year

Irondequoit Post: The late Dr. Karyl Mammano is tapped as Irondequoit Chamber's Citizen of the Year

Nov 14, 2013

By Linda Quinlan

The Irondequoit Chamber of Commerce traditionally presents beautification awards and installs new officers at its annual holiday party.

In recent years, the chamber has also honored a Citizen of the Year.

This year, the chamber has selected the late Dr. Karyl Mammano for that Citizen of the Year honor. It will be a posthumous award, as Karyl Mammano, Ph.D., died Sept. 26, 2013 after a short battle with cancer. She was 61.

Board member Greg Goater said the chamber received nine nomination letters for Mammano, who had resided in Irondequoit since about 1975.

She was a professor of accounting and finance and Director of Nonprofit Management for the Center of Community Engagement at St. John Fisher College.